Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges & Sunshine highlights the extraordinary practice of exporting children to Australia from Britain. This went on from the late nineteenth century to the nineteen seventies. What makes this practice so horrendous is that the children were told that their mothers were dead or did not want them and the mothers were told that the children had been adopted. Of course they hadn’t been they had been promised the aforementioned oranges and sunshine only to end up in the most extreme cases being abused in variety of different ways. This thoughtful, heart wrenching and campaigning film was made by the son of Ken; Jim Loach.